MHS-ENGLISH/HISTORY 185 UCONN ECE-MAST 195 MARITIME STUDIES Why is our relationship with the sea important?
How and why has it changed throughout history?
What do we need to do in the future to preserve this relationship?
Ms. Wendy Halsey –English
Mr. Michael Marelli – History
Fall and Spring Semesters of 2009-2010
Classrooms 210 and 207
Office Hours: Every Tuesday from2:20to3:30
Every Thursday from2:20 to3:30
Course Description : ECE Maritime Studies is an interdisciplinary course designed for students who are ready for the demands and rigor of a college course in their senior year. The curriculum will be a thematic approach to exploration of the sea and the literature that has arisen from people’s relationship to it. Throughout history, the sea has served as a highway, a source of food, and an arena for warfare and a stage for discovery. This course will explore Maritime History with attention to international linkages afforded by the ocean. Students will consider the literature that resulted as humans interacted with the ocean along with art, music, photography and film. The course is designed as a general education credit for UCONN, but also an Introduction to Maritime Studies offered at Avery Point Campus of UCONN.
Through reading, discussion, seminars, filed trips and lectures, we will explore the literary and historical topics from a variety of perspectives. These will include ethnic, gender, historical, religious, political, intellectual and economic.
Course Requirements:
Class Participation
Written assignments of various lengths and genres
Presentations
Formal Written Evaluative Exercises
Exhibitions
Class Participation:
Many classes will involve discussion of readings, lectures, films and reflections. Participation is absolutely mandatory. Many of the issues will be controversial which will require open minds, civil manners, and a willingness to shift perspectives with new ideas. Often, homework will require a preparation for discussion, so it is essential that you complete assignments on time.. Participation will be a part of your grade.
Written Assignments:
These will include persuasive and argumentative essays, literary analysis, journal entries, letter writing, poetry, character analysis, speech writing and narratives. Field Trips:
Field trips are considered a required part of this course. These will include visit to the Mystic Seaport, various battlefields and war sites in the local area,New London waterfront,StoningtonVillage,BostonHarbor, the Nautilus and others to be determined. A written assignment will accompany each visitation which will be a part of your grade.
Presentations:
Presentations will occur twice during the year. This does not include your final Exhibition. These will usually be a collaborative effort between small groups of students. Everyone is invited to use whatever level of technology they are comfortable with, but students should also challenge themselves to try a new technique or software. The presentations will be multi-faceted incorporating a variety of mediums including music, poetry, speech, a visual component and/or culinary.
Formal Written Evaluative Exercises:
At the end of each quarter, students will be required to take a written evaluative exercise on the ideas and the content which has been covered in class and in readings. These will be open ended questions, identify and analysis and a reflection of learning.
Exhibition:
The culminating activity of this course will be a project which expresses the students’ understanding of content and an ability to create their own definition of our relationship with the sea. Students are invited to develop projects which are based on their individual strengths and talents> Students are invited to UConn Avery Point to share their exhibits. People and Boundaries Required Readings:
Life of Pi by Yann Martell ( Summer Reading) Longitude by Dava Sobel The Tempest by William Shakespeare Ishmael by Daniel Quinn In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Captain’s Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Hungry Oceans by Linda Greenlaw The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Americaand the Sea by Labaree and Fowler (students are not required to buy this text, we will supply articles from it.)
Excerpts, short stories, and choice books include; Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Billy Budd by Herman Melville Moby Dick by Herman Melville Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano Ahab’s Wife by Jarling Fishing Out of Stonington Cod and Salt by Kurlansky Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Cruise of the Snark by Jack London The Nigger and Narcissus by Joseph Conrad Tales of the South Seas by Robert Michener
UCONN ECE-MAST 195
MARITIME STUDIES
Why is our relationship with the sea important?
How and why has it changed throughout history?
What do we need to do in the future to preserve this relationship?
Ms. Wendy Halsey –English
Mr. Michael Marelli – History
Fall and Spring Semesters of 2009-2010
Classrooms 210 and 207
Office Hours: Every Tuesday from2:20to3:30
Every Thursday from2:20 to3:30
Course Description : ECE Maritime Studies is an interdisciplinary course designed for students who are ready for the demands and rigor of a college course in their senior year. The curriculum will be a thematic approach to exploration of the sea and the literature that has arisen from people’s relationship to it. Throughout history, the sea has served as a highway, a source of food, and an arena for warfare and a stage for discovery. This course will explore Maritime History with attention to international linkages afforded by the ocean. Students will consider the literature that resulted as humans interacted with the ocean along with art, music, photography and film. The course is designed as a general education credit for UCONN, but also an Introduction to Maritime Studies offered at Avery Point Campus of UCONN.
Through reading, discussion, seminars, filed trips and lectures, we will explore the literary and historical topics from a variety of perspectives. These will include ethnic, gender, historical, religious, political, intellectual and economic.
Course Requirements:
Class Participation
Written assignments of various lengths and genres
Presentations
Formal Written Evaluative Exercises
Exhibitions
Class Participation:
Many classes will involve discussion of readings, lectures, films and reflections. Participation is absolutely mandatory. Many of the issues will be controversial which will require open minds, civil manners, and a willingness to shift perspectives with new ideas. Often, homework will require a preparation for discussion, so it is essential that you complete assignments on time.. Participation will be a part of your grade.
Written Assignments:
These will include persuasive and argumentative essays, literary analysis, journal entries, letter writing, poetry, character analysis, speech writing and narratives.
Field Trips:
Field trips are considered a required part of this course. These will include visit to the Mystic Seaport, various battlefields and war sites in the local area,New London waterfront,StoningtonVillage,BostonHarbor, the Nautilus and others to be determined. A written assignment will accompany each visitation which will be a part of your grade.
Presentations:
Presentations will occur twice during the year. This does not include your final Exhibition. These will usually be a collaborative effort between small groups of students. Everyone is invited to use whatever level of technology they are comfortable with, but students should also challenge themselves to try a new technique or software. The presentations will be multi-faceted incorporating a variety of mediums including music, poetry, speech, a visual component and/or culinary.
Formal Written Evaluative Exercises:
At the end of each quarter, students will be required to take a written evaluative exercise on the ideas and the content which has been covered in class and in readings. These will be open ended questions, identify and analysis and a reflection of learning.
Exhibition:
The culminating activity of this course will be a project which expresses the students’ understanding of content and an ability to create their own definition of our relationship with the sea. Students are invited to develop projects which are based on their individual strengths and talents> Students are invited to UConn Avery Point to share their exhibits.
People and Boundaries
Required Readings:
Life of Pi by Yann Martell ( Summer Reading)
Longitude by Dava Sobel
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Captain’s Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Hungry Oceans by Linda Greenlaw
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Americaand the Sea by Labaree and Fowler (students are not required to buy this text, we will supply articles from it.)
Excerpts, short stories, and choice books include;
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano
Ahab’s Wife by Jarling
Fishing Out of Stonington
Cod and Salt by Kurlansky
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
The Nigger and Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
Tales of the South Seas by Robert Michener